Found a tool in the engine compartment!
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Sell it on eBay...:smileup:
You found the mechanic who worked on your Nitro still in your engine compartment?!?!?:chuckle:When i open the hood to check the oil i found a tool sitting there from last time it was at the dealer!:Racing:
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When i open the hood to check the oil i found a tool sitting there from last time it was at the dealer!:Racing:
Costs me a lot of money if I lose a tool. I'm not sure why customers don't often feel inclined to return them. Maybe they feel some kind of justice to find a technician has left behind a tool. There are those that return them and I am very grateful to them.
Whether you know this or not mechanics have to supply their own tools. Dealerships do not supply regular tools. I myself own approximately 30k in tools and that number can easily run up to 50k+ in personally owned tools.
Please consider this next time you find a mechanics tools and realize they are his/her livelihood.
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Who knows, maybe forgot to tighten a wheel, put the brakes back together, put oil in the engine, you know the routine things.
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My Mother-In-Law got quite a bit of money in a settlement because they had to go back in and remove a needle they accidentally left in her.
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it was a curved needle nose plyers
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Honestly we tried to return the tool!
I completely understand - hubby use to work as a mechanic and luckily we were able to invest in decent tools that have carried over to day to day auto upkeep.
I completely understand - hubby use to work as a mechanic and luckily we were able to invest in decent tools that have carried over to day to day auto upkeep.
Costs me a lot of money if I lose a tool. I'm not sure why customers don't often feel inclined to return them. Maybe they feel some kind of justice to find a technician has left behind a tool. There are those that return them and I am very grateful to them.
Whether you know this or not mechanics have to supply their own tools. Dealerships do not supply regular tools. I myself own approximately 30k in tools and that number can easily run up to 50k+ in personally owned tools.
Please consider this next time you find a mechanics tools and realize they are his/her livelihood.
As a kid my dad took our Audi in for service and the mech left a tool under the hood. We noticed it when we went to pick up the car and there was a dent in the hood from the inside, with the tool still sitting there on top of the engine!
As an amateur mech myself I make a point of looking closely at anywhere a tool could be sitting before closing the hood.:Racing:
As an amateur mech myself I make a point of looking closely at anywhere a tool could be sitting before closing the hood.:Racing:
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As I recall I did that with my '63 Buick, But no dent as metal was metal back then and I don't slam hoods and as a side stupidity note I remember working on my '73 AMC Hornet and taking my watch off and later my wife went out and I found my high school grad present squashed by a D70 in the drivewayAs a kid my dad took our Audi in for service and the mech left a tool under the hood. We noticed it when we went to pick up the car and there was a dent in the hood from the inside, with the tool still sitting there on top of the engine!
As an amateur mech myself I make a point of looking closely at anywhere a tool could be sitting before closing the hood.:Racing:
( sorry for getting a little off topic)
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Check everything before leaving shop
Always check when you leave a dealer or shop. I saw a lady with her hood wrapped around her windshield on the freeway a couple of years ago. Shop bought her a new windshield and repaired the damage to the rest of her car. The technician, :loser1:if you want to call him that got fired. Good ole Wally World.:i_rolleyes:
Always check when you leave a dealer or shop. I saw a lady with her hood wrapped around her windshield on the freeway a couple of years ago. Shop bought her a new windshield and repaired the damage to the rest of her car. The technician, :loser1:if you want to call him that got fired. Good ole Wally World.:i_rolleyes:
I did that to my self, was working on my Datsun P/U many years ago, and went for a test drive. Wrapped the hood right over the top. :loser1: My tools were still sitting on the radiator. That is why the hood did not close. :loser1::loser1: I gave myself a double "L" for that!
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ouch
Ouch, that's got to hurt knowing that you can't put the blame on somebody else.:shakehead:. Hopefully you were not seriously hurt.
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